Charlize Theron in Dior Resort at the Dark Places LA premiere: pretty or icy?

Here are some photos of Charlize Theron at last night’s LA premiere of Dark Places, the adaptation of the Gillian Flynn novel of the same name. This adaptation was Charlize’s baby – she not only stars, she produced it and helped get it made. Which means it’s sort of weird for us to complain about how no one really saw her as Libby Day when we read the book. Still, even though Charlize is not my particular dream-casting choice, I have high hopes that the film will be sort of decent.

For the premiere, Charlize wore this flirty little Dior Resort 2016 dress. I appreciate that she went with a light, summery look, because too many ladies are just looking for something new and they end up in a Fall/Winter collection look in the dead of summer. The dress is quite pretty and it looks nice on her. I also like that she did something different with her hair – the braids are a new look for her. I also love that she showing some grey – this premiere must have come in between dye jobs.

Charlize managed to avoid speaking about Sean Penn and the breakup and I guess we’re all supposed to play along? That won’t last forever, you know. They made the mistake of working together and that film (The Last Face) should be coming out later this year. My guess is that Charlize will talk about what happened with Penn in those interviews.

I’m also including some photos of Sophia Loren and her son Edoardo Ponti, who were there for some unknown reason (seriously, I looked up Ponti’s IMDB and he has no connection to Dark Places). And photos of Christina Hendricks too – Hendricks was cast as Libby Day’s mom, Patty Day, in the flashback scenes in the 1980s. Hendricks is only one year older than Charlize in real life, but I don’t have a problem with this casting – it’s not like Charlize and Christina share scenes together, Patty’s scenes are ALL flashbacks. Christina recently spoke about being cast as Patty Day, and she basically said it happened at the last minute because the original actress dropped out. I sometimes worry that Hollywood doesn’t really know what to do with Christina, but she’s managing to do interesting character work pretty consistently.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

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